204 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES. 



pods, strong grower, prolific : beans shapely, pure white, 

 with purple eye ; early. 



Prolific Black Wax, long and large pods, golden color, 

 very productive, bearing early and through a long season. 



Burpee's Bush Lima, reported by California growers as 

 the best of the dwarf Limas. 



Broad Beans. These beans are related to the so-called 

 horse bean, but by breeding have lost much of the strong 

 flavor of the horse bean, and have so increased in size of 

 the seed that they are several times larger than the horse 

 bean. In Europe they are esteemed as a highly nutritious 

 and palatable vegetable. The seeds only are eaten and are 

 prepared for table in much the same manner as Lima 

 beans. As Lima beans are more delicate in flavor and 

 nearly always available in California markets there is less 

 chance for broad beans than elsewhere, and yet the fact 

 that they are more easily grown gives them claim to at- 

 tention. The plants are productive and will flourish in 

 almost any locality. The seed should be planted -about 

 three inches deep in double rows, eight inches between the 

 rows forming the double line, four inches between the 

 plants in the rows, and three feet between the double 

 rows. The early formation of seed can be hastened by re- 

 moving the terminal bud of the plants when they have 

 reached the height of between four and five feet, and have 

 produced enough flowers to insure a good crop of pods. 

 The Green Windsor is the best known broad bean. 



Climbing Beans. Pole beans are usually more sus- 

 ceptible to heat and drought than the better bush varie- 

 ties, and they are disappointing in other ways. Near the 

 coast, however, they may be grown and trained in any 

 way the grower pleases, from a six-foot staff to a whole 

 wigwam of poles and strings. Catalogues of California 

 seedsmen give the amateur good collections to select from. 



Transplanted Beans. Beans may be easily grown early 

 in moist sand in a protected place and set out when sev- 

 eral inches high when the soil and air are fit to receive 

 them. The best way to get a good start in a family garden 



